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Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star

Lesley Blanch

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Description:"Under this unusual title, Lesley Blanch, a compulsive traveller and therefore, according to the Balkan saying, "born under a lilac-bleeding star," writes of life in Bulgaria at the end of the 1940s, and of her travels from Uzbekistan to Guatemala by way of North Africa and Siberia. Alongside her own vivid recollections of life on the move, she weaves in the journeys of Pierre Loti; the last Ruritanian Queen, Marie of Roumania, in her Balkan setting; Vernon Lee, and Laurence Hope.Her artist's eye for detail and her vitality bring to life people and places. She is there and takes the reader with her. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star. To get started finding Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 208

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Antheneum

Release: 1964

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Description: "Under this unusual title, Lesley Blanch, a compulsive traveller and therefore, according to the Balkan saying, "born under a lilac-bleeding star," writes of life in Bulgaria at the end of the 1940s, and of her travels from Uzbekistan to Guatemala by way of North Africa and Siberia. Alongside her own vivid recollections of life on the move, she weaves in the journeys of Pierre Loti; the last Ruritanian Queen, Marie of Roumania, in her Balkan setting; Vernon Lee, and Laurence Hope.Her artist's eye for detail and her vitality bring to life people and places. She is there and takes the reader with her. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star. To get started finding Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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